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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Amerigo Vespucci
| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Amerigo Vespucci's actual contribution to the Age of Exploration has always been awkward — he was primarily a merchant and navigator whose letters describing South America as a "New World" circulated so widely in Europe that cartographer Martin Waldseemüller attached his name to the continent on the 1507 Cosmographiae Introductio, a decision Waldseemüller himself later tried to reverse. The name stuck anyway.
Cook Islands has issued commemorative silver dollars under Elizabeth II since the 1970s, frequently licensing explorer and historical themes to the international collector market rather than domestic circulation.